BLOG: 'I'm not really a swimmer...'

I am not really a swimmer. I’ve never had a coach or a club. Recreational holiday swimming, with the occasional bout of keep-fit morning swims at the local pool, was about my lot. But I’ve secretly dreamed of swimming the Channel for years and years. I just never told anyone.

I signed up to the Light Fund swim around Gozo, Malta in the summer of 2008, which is how I started. I got the bug, so I carried on in 2009 and completed my first two marathon swims, Lough Erne and Lake Windermere.

This May, a team of licensing execs will take on the challenge of swimming around the Maltese Islands to raise money for The Light Fund. Here, team member Ian Downes from Start Licensing, updates us on his progress...